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Township Hall
- Type: Place

Built from 1937-1939 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project with local limestone, the Nicodemus Township Hall has served as a central meeting place for the community for decades. Representing the pillar of self-determination in African American communities, this building hosted everything from voting and township meetings to dances and roller-skating. It currently houses the site's visitor center.
First Baptist Church
- Type: Place

The First Baptist Church was the first church in Nicodemus, organized in 1878 by Reverend Silas Lee. The congregation met in private residences, a sod church, and a smaller limestone church until this building was built in 1907. The First Baptist Church served not only as a religious meeting place, but also a community building. The congregation built a new church north of this building in 1975 and are still active in Nicodemus.
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
- Type: Place

Explore ingenuity, creativity, and resilience through captivating exhibits, artifacts, and art at the nation’s first museum dedicated to African American history on a national scale. The museum holds the largest known collection of artifacts belonging to General Young from his military service and family life in Wilberforce.
Aftermath of the Battle
Commemorating the Battle
Scottish Immigration Wayside
Widow Moores Bridge
Highland River Access
Glen Haven General Store
- Type: Place

There was only one place in the late 19th century and 20th century that provided the necessities for life-meat, produce, fabrics, communication and tools: the General Store. It was the hub of D.H. Day's company. The lumbermen and dock workers were paid in company "scrip" so they could only shop at this store. At different times in its history, the store served as a post office, ticket and freight office for steamers, telegraph station, lumber salesroom, and more.
Decisive Victory Exhibit
Nicodemus Newsletter March 2025
You Are Here: Poetry in Parks at Ledges Trailhead
Sleeping Bear Inn Garages
- Type: Place

Six years after Day's death, his daughter Marion and her husband Louis Warnes began running Dunesmobile rides out of Glen Haven. It started with a 1934 Ford which took four people out to the crest of the dunes and back. It was a thrilling 35-minute ride that took passengers to the crest of the dunes and back for 25 cents each. By the time the rides ended in 1978, there were 13 dunes wagons each carrying 14 passengers on a 12 mile, 35-minute excursion.
Sleeping Bear Inn
- Type: Place

Originally known as the Sleeping Bear House, this inn with bright geraniums filling its window boxes welcomed the guests of the little village for nearly one hundred years. D.H. Day himself married the daughter of the innkeeper and lived in the second story for a while. In addition to Day and his family, the inn hosted an eclectic mix of lumberjacks, dock workers, businessmen and posh passengers.
Philip A. Hart Visitor Center
Blacksmith Shop
- Type: Place

Built around 1867, the Blacksmith Shop was an indispensable component of the maritime village. Not only did the shop forge metal works, but it also served as the town's carpentry center. Nearly everyone in town had some need for the blacksmith's services, which included crafting and repairing oxen yolks, tools, and carriages, shoeing horses, and constructing pre-built homes, dining halls, and horse barns.